Recent content by debodun

Anyway, this is what the front looked like just before we moved in 1975. I guess dad was having a sidewalk sale.

True You own a snow shovel.

My first attempt at making haystack cookies. Pretty easy even for a kitchen klutz like me.

Bright overcast and still on the mild side of seasonable. Some locales here are under a winter weather advisory starting this afternoon through Sunday morning with mixed precip predicted.

The outside is still there, but it looks like the last owners gutted it then quit. I tried to find out who owns it now and, according to online tax records, it's some LLC company. It makes me sad to see it like this - so many happy memories there...

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False - the amount is about the same, but seasonal availability makes the difference. You can roller skate.

True, but only when I'm going out. At least one of your neighbors are still lighting their outdoor holiday decorations.

With me it's usually about 6 inches. I just cut the length off and let it fray. Who's gonna notice? The Daisy Mae look.

Rhotacism (noun) - a speech defect in which the "r" sound cannot be pronounced correctly. Cartoon character Elmer Fudd might have had rhotacism. "That wascally wabbit!"

I keep my bras hooked and just slip over my had like a tee shirt, then tuck the girls in where they have to go.

I went through this about 5 years ago. I toured many "active" senior facilities. The main problem for me is I fell though the cracks of financing. I have too much money to have my rent subsidized and I don't have enough to afford to live in one of those places. Most around here run $3000 to...

Sometimes I have dreams of having kittens in my house (not having a fit, I mean actual cats) or encountering cats somewhere. Usually just before I wake up. I always hope I can go back to sleep and continue the dream, but I usually don't. I just had one last night, as a matter of fact. I opened...

Looks like we are having a "January Thaw". A balmy 46F at the moment - quite mild for so early on a mid-winter day in upstate NY. Sunny, too, which helps, but a gusty wind prevails.